Motivational Quotes

Mind

Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Mind

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward